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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] stop empty floppy drive announcement
From:       Upscope <upscope () nwi ! net>
Date:       2013-11-13 19:29:00
Message-ID: 6960325.uQ9goPXFGH () linux-rpl7
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On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 06:58:43 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 13/11/13 18:04, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2013-11-13 07:38 (GMT+0100) C composed:
> >> Felix Miata wrote:
> >>> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-linux&m=138424961802070&w=2
> >>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061
> >>> 
> >>> Someone please find a realistic solution for this soon. It's a
> >>> miserable
> >>> blight for KDE in 13.1 to begin life this way.
> >> 
> >> I have a feeling you will struggle to find a fix for it.  As was
> >> stated in the thread you linked... floppies are obsolete (for many
> >> years) and finding someone with the knowledge AND incentive fix an
> > 
> > Did you read the bug? It seems to me only a little programmer help
> > is
> > needed to come up with a solution.
> > 
> >> issue for hopelessly obsolete hardware (even if in your use case,
> >> you
> >> still use them) is going to be very difficult... or more likely
> >> impossible.
> > 
> > There really shouldn't be a material difference in this problem
> > between an empty BluRay drive and an empty floppy drive. Absent
> > media, there's nothing to announce about either.
> > 
> > Regardless, device notifier ought to be able to be configured so
> > that
> > only selected device types be recognized.
> > 
> > At the very least, there's no reason for it to be stealing focus.
> > 
> >> I haven't seen a computer with a floppy drive in 5 or 6 years
> >> now...
> >> and now, CD/DVD drives are becoming rare... soon to be obsolete as
> >> well.
> > 
> > As long as people have floppies and CDs and DVDs they need something
> > to access them. Combining DVDs, CDs and floppies, I have well over
> > 3000, and I know people whose libraries are measured with 5 digits.
> 
> I'll go along with this.
> 
> I don't know if people realise this but vinyl LPs are back in vogue.
> 
> No joke. There is a company here in Australia which cannot keep up
> with the demand for vinyl LPs and is pressing them at a furious rate.
> 
> I didn't know about this until very recently but some moths ago I
> bought a turntable (for $A50) which will play all the old
> vinyls/records [33 1/3, 45, 78 ) and output using a USB port. I can
> now record all my vinyls/records  I have sitting in "storage" and
> edit them using Audacity.
> 
> So don't knock floppies.
> 
> They are natural when you get older.
> 
> BC
> 
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Your 100% right on the LP's. They are coming back all over. I know 
magnetic tapes (Good Quality) only last 5-10 years in storage vaults. 
When I was working we used to rewite the older tapes to new tape on a 
defined schedule.  Especially the ones we were required to keep for 
ever.

Russ
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